I concur with Donal's points. I think that it's very important that we explicitly make the linkage between SLOs and SLAs. SLAs are comprised of SLOs. Provider/Consumer SLA = SLOs + Penalty/Reward SLOs are also associated with services in the broader sense and this should be reflected in the definition. eBay's search service definitely has SLOs. And I don't think one could easily argue that it is a resource in the OGSA sense :o) Regards Paul -----Original Message----- From: ogsa-wg-bounces@ogf.org [mailto:ogsa-wg-bounces@ogf.org] On Behalf Of Donal K. Fellows Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 3:18 AM To: Treadwell, Jem Cc: ogsa-wg WG Subject: Re: [ogsa-wg] Glossary defs: SLA/SLO Treadwell, Jem wrote:
If you have comments please let me know; otherwise I'll move these terms into the draft document.
Maybe you should say that a SLA may include a number of SLOs. But otherwise they look pretty good. (Also: can a SLO refer to an ordinary general service, or does it need to refer to a resource?) Donal. -- ogsa-wg mailing list ogsa-wg@ogf.org http://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/ogsa-wg